Re: [PATCH v3 00/21] mm: lru_lock splitting

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Fri Feb 24 2012 - 21:16:51 EST


On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:51:36 +0400
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> v3 changes:
> * inactive-ratio reworked again, now it always calculated from from scratch
> * hierarchical pte reference bits filter in memory-cgroup reclaimer
> * fixed two bugs in locking, found by Hugh Dickins
> * locking functions slightly simplified
> * new patch for isolated pages accounting
> * new patch with lru interleaving
>
> This patchset is based on next-20120210
>
> git: https://github.com/koct9i/linux/commits/lruvec-v3
>

I wonder.... I just wonder...if we can split a lruvec in a zone into small
pieces of lruvec and have splitted LRU-lock per them, do we need per-memcg-lrulock ?

It seems per-memcg-lrulock can be much bigger lock than small-lruvec-lock.
(depends on configuraton) and much more complicated..and have to take care
of many things.. If unit of splitting can be specified by boot option,
it seems admins can split a big memcg's per-memcg-lru lock into more small pieces.

BTW, how to think of default size of splitting ? I wonder splitting lru into
the number of cpus per a node can be a choice. Each cpu may have a chance to
set prefered-pfn-range at page allocation with additional patches.

Thanks,
-Kame


> ---
>
> Konstantin Khlebnikov (21):
> memcg: unify inactive_ratio calculation
> memcg: make mm_match_cgroup() hirarchical
> memcg: fix page_referencies cgroup filter on global reclaim
> memcg: use vm_swappiness from target memory cgroup
> mm: rename lruvec->lists into lruvec->pages_lru
> mm: lruvec linking functions
> mm: add lruvec->pages_count
> mm: unify inactive_list_is_low()
> mm: add lruvec->reclaim_stat
> mm: kill struct mem_cgroup_zone
> mm: move page-to-lruvec translation upper
> mm: push lruvec into update_page_reclaim_stat()
> mm: push lruvecs from pagevec_lru_move_fn() to iterator
> mm: introduce lruvec locking primitives
> mm: handle lruvec relocks on lumpy reclaim
> mm: handle lruvec relocks in compaction
> mm: handle lruvec relock in memory controller
> mm: add to lruvec isolated pages counters
> memcg: check lru vectors emptiness in pre-destroy
> mm: split zone->lru_lock
> mm: zone lru vectors interleaving
>
>
> include/linux/huge_mm.h | 3
> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 75 ------
> include/linux/mm.h | 66 +++++
> include/linux/mm_inline.h | 19 +-
> include/linux/mmzone.h | 39 ++-
> include/linux/swap.h | 6
> mm/Kconfig | 16 +
> mm/compaction.c | 31 +--
> mm/huge_memory.c | 14 +
> mm/internal.h | 204 +++++++++++++++++
> mm/ksm.c | 2
> mm/memcontrol.c | 343 +++++++++++-----------------
> mm/migrate.c | 2
> mm/page_alloc.c | 70 +-----
> mm/rmap.c | 2
> mm/swap.c | 217 ++++++++++--------
> mm/vmscan.c | 534 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
> mm/vmstat.c | 6
> 18 files changed, 932 insertions(+), 717 deletions(-)
>
> --
> Signature
>

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